My grandfather years ago fell and broke his hip. Died. I hear that today that is not quite the death sentence it was 40 years ago. So yes - if he hadn’t broken his hip (or leg in your case), he would have lived.
At least until the next thing got him. He was 92 at the time.
And as others have posted, they also look at “excess deaths” over a period of time to estimate the number of dead due to Covid. Same as they estimate the number of deaths due to flu.
All of that said - just because there is a portion of people that are more at risk to dying from Covid, doesn’t mean that things need to be shut down for half a year!! Most people are healthy and need to work and provide for their families.
Take reasonable precautions. Limit your visits to sick and elderly relatives. Or have your get-togethers outside. We have more than “flattened the curve”. Our Governor acts like things won’t get back to normal until we are assured that NO ONE will ever die of Covid again. Nuts!
I woulda thought it should say broken leg, but that’s not how death certificate ended up reading in the case I was talking of.
just stikes me as odd how some deaths are recorded one way and some leaned to support another reason.
I had an older relative, went in for knee replacement, surgery was success, but she had trouble coming out of recovery at hospital died 4 days later. doubt they called her death due to recovery from knee surgery.